Smoker&#39;s kit.



I. F. JECKERT.

SMOKERS KIT. I APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10. I916.

Patented May 22, 1917.

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ATTORNEY designed for matches, and especially a lighted pipe which llrlli "lit a earn rib.

JOSEPH F. JECKEET, 0F Gil-FIELD, NEW JERSEY.

SMOKERS m1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May %2, 191?.

Application filed November 10, 1916. fierial No. 130,662.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn F. JEoKERr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garfield, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Smokers Kits, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention is a smokers kit, holding cigars, tobacco,

the user desires to lay aside for the moment; and the object of the same is to so construct a metallic holder for these various articles that it will be most convenient to the user and the disagreeable results from laying down a lighted pipe will be avoided.

This object is carried out by my invention whose details are explained below and illustrated in the drawings wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the de vice in use with its door open to expose a bag of tobacco.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, and

Fig. 3 is a vertical section.

By preference this cigar holder is made of metal, such as tin or the like, suitablytreated by painting or more preferably japanning, and its size, shape, and exact detailed construction are matters of no moment. While it is designed to contain cigars, tobacco, and matches, the use of the receptacles for these articles is .optional as its chief purpose is to support a lighted pipe or several of them. The holder comprises an upright back plate 1 havingsuitable means (not shown) for attaching it to an upright such as a wall, two ends 2 secured to and extending forward from the side edges of said back, a fiat bottom 3 connecting the lower edges of the'ends, and a front door 4 hinged at 5 to the front edge of the bottom, having a match scratching surface 6 on its exterior, and held normally closed by means of a spring 7 "as best seen in Fig. 3. The ends 2 are reduced in width at their upper portions as at 2, and the front edges of the narrow portions are connected by a corrugated panel 8 whose corrugations are upright so asto produce channels between them at both the front'and the rear' of the panel. This panel may well be made of corrugated sheet metal in strip form, attached at its ends to the front edges of the end pieces 2', braced at intervals from the back by upright partitions 9, and supported at its lower edge upon a shelf 10 which extends forward from the backl; and thus are produced channels or compartments for cigars which may stand upright therein as best seen in Fig. l. The front edge of the shelf may well be bent downward into a tray 11 having a'substantiallv upright rear wall and carried forward at its lower edge between the wide portion of the end pieces at its front edge into a flange l2all as best seen in Fig. 3. To the end pieces are preferably attached pockets 13 for matches and the like. The method of forming the various members and of where they meet each other is immaterial.

In use the appliance is hung on an upright such as the wall, and the user may insert cigars in the pockets behind the corrugated panel 8, matches in the pockets 13,

I and bags of tobacco in the receptacle which is exposed when the front door 4 is opened. But the peculiar location of the corrugated panel 8 is such that if the bowl of a pipe P be laid in the tray 11 upright in one of the channels inthis plate, it will remain in thls position as seen in Fig. 1. The result is that the nicotin, oil of tobacco, and other juices whichare within the bore of the stem will run down the same into the bowl, the loose ashes in the latter will fall out into the tray. and the mouthpiece of a pipe of ordinary length will rise above the panel 8 so that it comes into contact with nothing whatever. Cleanliness is therefore preserved, at any moment the pipe is ready for renewed use, and the surplus and cold ashes are automatically removed. In fact the tray may be used by the smoker to knock off the ashes into, either from the pipe or the cigars.

From the foregoing description, taken in connecting them and its stem S stood Y or plates 2, and turned upward connection with the accompanying drawing an upright flat back and ends, the latter being reduced in width at their upper portions, a corrugated .panel eonneoting the front edges of said ends, the corrugations providing upright channels in front and in rear of the panel, a shelf between said ends extending forward from the back beneath the panel andv closing the lower ends of all channels, the shelf being bent downward and thence forward into a tray, and an uprightflange at the front edge of said tray, 10 the Whole as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOSEPH F. JECKERT. 

